Do you believe in Science?

Question

First let me ask when do you believe life begins?
What is your view on Embryonic Stem Cells?
If Stem Cells have the potential to help thousands should funding go for it, federal funding?
What about Cloning?
What do you see as wrong with it?

Answer 1

life begins at 27
I think they are swell
Fund away
Cant wait til I hae my own
He cant touch my wife.

Answer 2

Yes I very strongly believe in science and rationalisation. There is not enough rational thought going on. There's too much arrogance, and rejection of common sense going on.
I believe life begins when it becomes life, which is when the sperm fertilizes the egg, cells start being created. Sound extreme? There is no other logical time point at which we can define life as beginning, it would be a silly discussion.
It has already been discovered the Embryonic Stem Cells are not needed for research any more, so that seems like a non-issue. I also think that issue was brought up to make pro-life people look mean. I think it's meaner to kill someone than to not help someone with a disease. Again, I think life begins at conception and I know of no other valid argument that it doesnt, and I think birth does not indicate any change in that person, or have any spiritual, moral or physical meaning other than being moved out of the womb and no longer taking nourishment directly from the umbilical cord. Notice how the baby is still dependent (in nature) on the mother's milk? So it's a progression that doesn't have any defining point when life begins other than conception. Obviously a non-developed embryo might not be able to feel pain, but killing an embyo takes away the potential for someone to live that has already begun to live, we don't know everything about it. It's the fact that we don't know but are so arrogant that we think we do know that bothers me.
Cloning is problematic, because a cloned person might have doubts as to whether they have a soul. Ironically it's the same issue with Cloning. We don't know everything about what makes a human a human. I think a person that is Cloned is still a creation of God. It's like building a car that's exactly like a Ford. Ford designed it, so Ford should get the credit for making it.

Answer 3

Yes I do believe that science is explaining the natural world and is doing many valuable things.

Life begins at conception.

Embryonic Stem Cells are rather useless. More advances have been made with adult stem cells than embryonic stem cells.

No federal funding should be given to embryonic stem cell research. Besides the fact that it is destroying a life, it has not proven itself better than adult stem cell research that should be funded.

I don't agree with cloning as the number of embryos that would have to be created and destroyed is wrong.

Also, before anyone asks, I also disagree with IVF for the same reasons and that if a couple want a child that much, then there are so many children that need adoption.

Answer 4

Science is the only way humans have to really learn the truth about the world we live in. "Faith" is just an excuse for ignorance.

"When does life begin?" is the wrong question. A sperm or egg cell is alive. The question should be "When does a separate human individual form?" The answer to that question is clearly at the moment of conception when the sperm and egg fuse to form a zygote with the potential for growing into a fully independent adult. After that point, it should not be killed just because it is an inconvenience to someone else.

Destroying a human embryo is not the only way to get stem cells. Therefore, farming human embryos to harvest stem cells from them should not be done.

Stem cells should receive federal funding. Embryonic stem cells should not.

There is nothing inherently evil about cloning. Identical twins are essentially clones and I don't see modern society having problems with identical twins. The problem with cloning comes when people try to use it to farm people to harvest their organs for transplant into others. That is evil. However, there is nothing wrong with using cloning to grow individual organs for transplant.

Answer 5

Life begins at conception as per the Bible. I'm not sure about embryonic stem cells, but I don't believe they should be picked apart and researched. Cord stem cell research has the most potential in developing cures and advances in medicine. Cloning can be so easily misused. Definitely should not clone people for parts. If you clone a person, you will still have the physical attributes, but the essence/soul is a different person. Science is a valid pursuit, but it doesn't have all of the answers. I don't believe in evolution.

Answer 6

How does believing in science differ from believing science?

"First let me ask when do you believe life begins?"

5:00 pm on a Friday

"What is your view on Embryonic Stem Cells?"

Good idea.

"If Stem Cells have the potential to help thousands should funding go for it, federal funding?"

Don't blame me. I voted Democratic.

"What about Cloning?"

It has some downsides.

"What do you see as wrong with it?"

My understanding is that many cloned animals have shortened lifespans.

Answer 7

I believe in the facts that support scientific theories and laws. Science itself is not a 'belief'.. that makes it out to sound like a religion which it isn't. Science is a discipline.

I support stem cell research and believe it should be funded by both public and private means.

I think there should be cloning with limitations.. we don't need complete copies of human beings but if I needed a kidney and they wanted to clone my own.. well that is fine by me.

Answer 8

I'm all for stem cell research, but I don't know about cloning. Most likely the only people who could afford to clone themselves would be obnoxious rich people like Paris Hilton. I think one of her is enough.

Answer 9

Of course I believe in science. Stem cells could possibly save a lot of lives. Why is this even a debate? Cloning, I am not sure. I would have a problem with human cloning, I think. I don't know enough about it to really have a definite opinion.

Answer 10

Life begins at the moment of conception.
Embryonic stem cells have NOT been proven to be effective in curing diseases. ADULT stem cells have.
Therefore, no, on the third/fourth question.
Cloning? It's playing God, and it's unfair to whatever creature is cloned. Although, I see nothing wrong with cloning plants.

Answer 11

Life begins at the first breath. I am all for stem sell research and it should be funded. I am also for cloning and I don't see anything wrong with it.